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Zingaresca Guitar Duo: Vadim Kolpakov & Oleg Timofeyev – Russian seven-string guitars. Demo video made by Dmitriy Melnik.
In Italian, the word “Zingaresca” means a “Gypsy melody” or “music, written in the Gypsy style.” ZINGARESCA Guitar Duo consists of Oleg Timofeyev, the pioneer in the revival of the Russian seven-string guitar, and the celebrated Russian-Roma (Gypsy) virtuoso Vadim Kolpakov. For more information on ZINGARESCA, visit
Russian-Gypsy guitar tradition goes back to the 18th century when the first Sokolovsky Gypsy choir (Russian “Соколовский хор“) was founded by the Count Orlov-Chesmensky in the 1770s who called on Ivan Sokolov, leader of the Roma (Gypsies) among his serfs, to perform at his estate outside Moscow. The Roma-serfs were granted their freedom in 1807, and Sokolov became the first in a
dynasty of Gypsy choir leaders. The choir performed at the prestigious Yar restauran
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Aleksandr “Sasha“ Kolpakov Колпаков . Старушка
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Подмосковные вечера на русской семиструнной гитаре Russian seven string guitar